Dirty Little Secret

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*Leia's POV*

Being a first-year was hard of course but it grew easier over time. As I began to make new friends and got to know everyone, well for the most part that is.

I watched the first years get sorted into their new houses, glancing to the Slytherin table every so often, in hopes to spot an all too familiar face. I immediately diverted my gaze back to the front of the room when his eyes met mine and continued watching the sorting hat at work, nervous new students being put into houses with their future friends, enemies, and maybe even lovers. The majority of them were Gryffindor or Slytherin but a decent amount were still put into Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff.

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Later that day the new students sat around the Hufflepuff common room, leaving us to show them the in and outs of Hogwarts. I watched as they chatted among each other while others sat nervously in silence, just like I had the year prior.

I was never one to take the lead on things, so I managed to slip out of the common room to wander the halls. I eventually headed towards the courtyard finding a shaded spot under a tree to sit under. I liked sitting out here when there was a lot on my mind.

I used reading and the cool breeze as an escape from reality. The reality that my life was never going to be normal. Hogwarts, magic, all of this was my normal. Even if it was just a temporary relief it helped tremendously. For whenever I was reading I was someone else, in a different world.

I was reading my book for no longer than a minute when my attention was grasped by approaching footsteps, "Draco, what do you want?" I asked mindlessly, without even looking up. He was the absolute last person I wanted to talk to right now.

"Is that any way to talk to a friend?" He asked sarcastically. I chuckled and closed my book before placing it on the ground beside me so I could stand and come face to face with him. 

"Friend? You think you're my friend?" I scoffed, anger raging through my body. "All you did last year was bully me, both physically and emotionally. You hurt me and you used me." I couldn't help but raise my voice slightly with each word. "Why would I ever consider someone like you my friend?" I spat.

A small smile started forming on his face. It was like this entertained him. Somehow seeing me like this gave him some demented sense of pleasure.

"I've considered us friends." He stepped closer to me causing me to take a step back but was stopped. I felt the cool bark on the tree brush my skin. It was rough, preventing me from backing up more than I already had.

"Whatever you say," I said sarcastically, rolling my eyes with a slight chuckle. I bent over to grab my book and tried to push past him.

*Draco's POV*

"Whatever you say." She replied sarcastically, rolling her brilliant blue eyes, and gave a slight chuckle. She tried to push herself past me, but I grabbed her arm so she couldn't.

"I was joking around with you last year," I said truthfully but gave a bit of my special Draco flare. Ever since I bumped into her last year on the platform I haven't been able to get her out of my mind. Those soft blue eyes and how red she got when she looked at me.

I looked her in the eyes but she instantly looked to the ground, chuckling again, "joking, really? That's what you call joking? Then I would just hate to see you actually being mean to someone." She snapped at me, "and what are you like when you are actually nice to someone?"

"I know, it wasn't the best way to treat you. I should have been nicer to you, but you know I have to keep my image." I held my head high.

"Well, you don't have to speak to me at all. Could you please just forget I exist?" I could hear a hint of truth in her voice. I sighed looking her in the eyes.

"Leia," she raised an eyebrow at me. I cleared my throat and tried to begin telling her how I felt, "I chose to talk to you and treat you the way I did, not to ignore your existence, because I -" I was cut off.

"Leia!" Kaya shouted as she ran towards us. "I have been looking all over for you!" She stopped in her tracks once she realized I was there, rage filling her normally bright and innocent eyes. "What does he want?" She growled, staring daggers through me.

"I was just enlightening my little friend here." I laughed, pushing Leia to the ground. "I'll see you later." I looked down at her apologetically, realizing she was hurt, but also curious as to what I was about to tell her.

I winked at her before turning away and walking off. I glanced back at the girls one more time before disappearing into the school.

I was finally going to tell her how I feel, but Kaya just had to come get in the way like always. I stopped in an almost empty hallway and punched a wall in anger. My actions gaining the attention of the few other students in the hall with me. "What?" I snapped at them angrily. They all quickly went back to what they were doing a few whispering amongst themselves.

At this rate I'll never get to tell her how I feel.